Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek Team up to Escape Prison in First Papillon Trailer
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Escaping prison is a cinematic trope that yields as much quality filmmaking, such as Jacques Baker’s Le Trou, as it does-bottom of-the-barrel cinema (see William Beaudine’s Men of San Quentin, if you truly dare). Today, another prison escape movie gets tossed into the fray as Michael Noer’s Papillon gets its first trailer.
Papillon, starring Rami Malek and Charlie Hunnam, is a retelling of the same true story that Franklin J. Schaffner’s film of the same name is based on—that film starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. This new adaptation also follows closely the autobiographies Papillon and Banco, and it tells the tale of how Henri “Papillon” Charrière (Hunnam), a Parisian safecracker, and Louis Dega (Malek), a convicted counterfeiter, helped each other to escape. Dega has the money to fund their escape plan and, in return, Charrière offers Dega protection from the dangers of prison life.